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Vol. XLII. No. 3 25 Cents a Copy 2 September, 1931 MID-PACIFIC MAGAZINE COUNT HIRATARO HAYASHI President of the Education Association of Japan. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE PAN-PACIFIC UNION - - ICIIICILUICLUMMinfailnlinILMInItalLitnnallealnItilltrIty[1111111(111( Mil/ rt ITU \IMAM Uf; t • •• (. it I 0. 4 r flito-artur 1aga3tur . CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD . '--. Volume XLII Number 3 CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1931 • 4 . I '?-- The Work of the Pan-Pacific Union - - 203 4 ByAlexander Hume Ford • 4 The Fighting Instinct and its Utilization for Peace - - 207 • By Count Hirotaro Hayashi • Ca . 4 The Seven Ages of Women in Medicine - - 211 • 4 By Kate C. Mead, M.D. • The Far Eastern Tropical Association of Medicine - 219 By Ernest Hartman and W. W. Cadbury • 11 A Nursery School in Hawaii - - - - 223 . PI By Alida Visscher Shinn • *. Individual Versus Group Education - - 226 • 4:.• By Max Oschwald • ei Philippine Independence - - - - - 229 1•4- • By Isauro Gabaldon Fiji and Canada - - - - 235 I' .t. - - - 239 • 4 Early Japanese Contact with Siam • By Ippei Fukuda . ii Tropical Island Gardening - - - 241 . By Richard Tongg • - - - - 247 . 4 Unknown Mexico ---,.-. By Serior Mauricio Fresco 2 - - - 251 . i Through Chile's Switzerland 4 Sukiyaki Made at Home - - - - - 257 • By Inez Wheeler Westgate 1,--„. The Passion Fruit - - - - 261 4 By Albert H. Benson, M.R.A.C. ED I 1 Skiing in the Antarctic - - - - 265 F By Rear Admiral E. R. G. R. Evans i It The Maoris of New Zealand - - - - 269 ,,4 By T. M. H. t tc_i_ The Ting Hsien Mass Education Experiment - - 271 By Y. C. James Yen 1 Nivafoou: Tin Can Island 275 • By B. W. de Montalk II il China's Jade Industry - - - - 278 i%■ i• - Bulletin of the Pan-Pacific Union • 4. And Pan-Pacific Youth, New Series, No. 139 - 281 • g i iit, J' I: iti-liartfir P: agazint . Published monthly by ALEXANDER HUME FORD, Alexander Young Hotel Building, Honolulu, T. H. • possessions, $3.00 in advance. Canada and • Yearly subscription in the United States and a Mexico, $3.25. For all foreign countries, $3.50. Single Copies, 25c. l' Entered as second-class matter at the Honolulu Postoff ice. * Permission is given to reprint any article from the Mid-Pacific Magazine. TT n IrIlil fill )1101IVATUncRIVIIK7allIMOt; Printed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd. THE MID-PACIFIC Miss Jane Addams of Hull House, and Alexander Hume Ford, founder and director of th: Pan-Pacific Union. Miss Addams visited Hawaii in August, 1928, as international chairman of the First Pan-Pacific Women's Conference, one of the most important gatherings held under the auspices of the Union. At the second Women's Conference, two years later, a Permanent organization of Pacific women was formed—the Pan-Pacific Women's Association, of which Dr. Georgina Sweet of Australia is the president. THE MID-PACIFIC 203 Japanese girls in a pageant at the Pan-Pacific Research Institution. 1•4,• • e • eeeeeee vAmmAr ms•Apj • • s • IVIIVITC717[711CYTTUIT/I ..moAmammi,p 7:. The Work of the Pan-Pacific Union CI!. By ALEXANDER HUME FORD Director, Pan-Pacific Union (In the 75th Anniversary Edition of the Honolulu Advertiser) 4 1a /1 r r ■ • rrNItrisItl• A • fnuCarnmanai • • • I. • • 41114444: To mention the accomplishments of the Education Association conference in Pan-Pacific Union is a difficult task. It San Francisco in 1923 and creating the called the first Travel Congress in 1911 World Federation of Education Associa- and sought then to create a Pan-Pacific tions, which has a sectional meeting in Travel Bureau. It called and financed Honolulu in 1932. It called and financed the First Pan-Pacific Science Congress the first Pan-Pacific Commercial Confer- in 1920, now the Pacific Science Associa- ence in 1924, with James A. Farrell tion. It organized locally the Hawaiian (president of the U. S. Steel Corpora- Academy of Science, after months of ne- tion) as chairman. Mr. Farrell was de- gotiation with the national organization. tained at the last moment, but always It issued a call for a Pacific conference of promised to preside over the next Com- Young Men's Christian Association secre- mercial Congress held in Hawaii, and taries, and out of this preliminary work will keep his word next year. grew the Institute of Pacific Relations. The Union conducted two Pan-Pacific It called the First Pan-Pacific Educa- Women's Conferences and has materially tional Congress ; the second, also called aided in the creation of the Pan-Pacific by the Union, uniting with the National Women's Association. It called and 204 THE MID-PACIFIC financed the first Pan-Pacific Surgical Japan, remained for some months and Congress (a part of its plan for a later successfully demonstrated that the greater Pan-Pacific Medical Congress). Japanese edible oyster would thrive in The surgical body is now the Pan-Pacific Hawaiian waters. He expects to return Surgical Association and again convenes to introduce the cultivation of the pearl in Hawaii in 1933. oyster in Hawaii. A building was set Perhaps the most far-reaching work of aside on the grounds where young men the Union was the calling and conducting from Pacific lands desiring education in of the Pan-Pacific Food Conservation science or agriculture might have a home Congress, primarily a conference of food while attending classes at the University and agricultural scientists, the great ma- of Hawaii. These formed the nucleus of jority of whom were not executives, but the Pan-Pacific Junior Science group actual daily research scientists. Out of that, twenty or thirty strong, dined this conference grew the International weekly at the institution and developed Sugar Technologists' Association that has science photography as well as the use of held two or three conferences since in special cameras in preparing films for different parts of the world. visual education work in the schools. The Pan-Pacific Fisheries Association, Their plan is now being taken up eagerly another outgrowth of the Food Confer- in Japan and China. It was the chairman ence, with David Starr Jordan at its of the Junior Science Group, Northrup head, which is still publishing through the Castle, Jr., who conducted Dr. Galtsoff Journal of the Pan-Pacific Research In- on his visit to Hermes Reef to find the stitution the check list of the fish of the pearl oyster that will grow in Hawaii. Pacific—an undertaking that at the begin- More and more the Pan-Pacific Re- ning Dr. Jordan thought would take a search Institute promises to become the century to accomplish, but which is today, Wood's Hole of the Pacific. Dr. Joseph after six years, nearing completion. Rock makes it his home for several years Dr. Jordan presided at the Pan-Pacific beginning this winter. He will return to Fisheries Conference and with delegates Hawaii to complete his botanical work on from the leading Pacific lands remained the trees of Hawaii. Other distinguished a house guest at the Pan-Pacific Research scientists are planning to make it a home Institution, where he wrote two hooks. during reasearch work at the Institution. The creation of the Pan-Pacific Re- The Pan-Pacific Union is a growth of search Institution was an outgrowth of the spirit of Hawaii. Its first preliminary the first Pan-Pacific Food Conservation pre-natal meetings were held at the Out- Conference. During its sessions the rigger Club beach in 1907. Here Jack Castle family offered the use of its old London, S. Sheba, Dr. Katsunuma, and family mansion (the largest private resi- leading thinkers of all races in Honolulu dence in Honolulu) and seven acres of met at weekly suppers under the hau surrounding grounds in Manoa Valley. trees and discussed international ques- The Pan-Pacific Research Institution was tions. Out of this grew the "Hands- organized with Dr. Jordan at its head, Around-the-Pacific Club, the progenitor and every Friday night for seven years of the Pan-Pacific Union. running from forty to fifty local and The first discussion leading to the crea- visiting scientists met at the institution in tion of the Pan-Pacific Union, however, round-table dinner discussion, ending with was at the home of J. P. Cooke. Here, an illustrated science lecture, to which after a small dinner party, the present di- the public is invited. rector discussed plans in the back of his Science house guests came from every head with his host, J. P. Cooke, Sr., and part of the Pacific. Dr. C. Ishikawa, of Frank C. Atherton. Mr. Cooke gave his THE MID-PACIFIC 205 unqualified approval, and until the day of bill was withdrawn and that of the Jap- his death was the most outspoken anese pressmen substituted. There has friend and supporter of the work, and been no trouble since with the Japanese from members of his family has always press. come the outstanding financial support of The next question before the "12-12- the Union, other than that given by the 12" gatherings of the Pan-Pacific Union governments. The Castles, Baldwins, was that of the control of the language Wilcoxes, Athertons, and Dillinghams schools. Again the aid of the Japanese have also been outstanding contributors. was called in and a bill satisfactory to Frank Atherton spent some years both sides drawn up, presented to the abroad, but finally returned to Hawaii Legislature and became a law. and became vice-president of the Pan- A most vital question at this time was Pacific Union, resigning only to become that of dual citizenship of the Japanese head of the Institute of Pacific Relations, youth. Then Consul General Yada but remaining an advisor of and contribu- pointed out that dual citizenship was tor to the Pan-Pacific Union.